Prof. Tali Gal holds a joint position at the Institute of Criminology and Faculty of Law, where she is Chair in Child and Youth Rights and Academic Director of the Child and Youth Rights Program at Minerva Center for Human Rights. Her scholarship integrates legal, criminological, and psycho-social knowledge and involves restorative justice, children’s rights, and therapeutic jurisprudence. She is the author of the book Child Victims and Restorative Justice: A Needs-Rights Model (OUP, 2011), and co-editor (with Benedetta Faedi-Duramy) of International Perspectives and Empirical Findings on Child Participation (OUP, 2015). Before joining the Hebrew University in 2022, she was a faculty member at the University of Haifa, where she was Head of School of Criminology since 2018. Prof. Gal has published extensively in peer-review as well as law-review journals on the areas of her expertise. Tali is an Associate Editor at The International Journal of Restorative Justice and a Founding Board Member of the Israeli Society of Victimology. Prior to joining academia, Tali was the Legal Advisor of the Israel National Council for the Child.
Dr. Inbar Cohen is the executive director of the Child and Youth Rights Program at the Minerva Center for Human Rights, Faculty of Law. She earned her PhD in Criminology at the University of Haifa and was a member of the Grad Team for leading doctoral students. She holds a BSW in Social Work from the University of Haifa and an MA in NGO management and in Criminology (supplemental studies) from the Hebrew University. Her main scholarship concerns are therapeutic jurisprudence, critical criminology, and critical discourse analysis. Her research focus is on the interchange between behavioral sciences and the law. Her PhD study focused on the implementation of mental health knowledge in sexual assault criminal proceedings and the radical change it causes to the legal discretion, turning it to "theralegal" discretion. In her postdoctoral studies Dr. Cohen focused on Problem-Solving courts in Israel and the US. Her research at Bar-Ilan University focused on the necessity of the adversary tension in the Israeli Community Courts. Her research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore examined therapeutic interventions practiced in Prostitution Diversion Programs in Philadelphia. Her research was published in leading academic journals in the area of behavioral sciences and the law.
Dr. Cohen was the head of the Socio-Legal Clinic for Youth and Young Adults At-Risk at the Faculty of Law, the College of Management. Currently she teaches at the School of Social Work at the Hebrew University and at the Rupin Academic Center and in the school of Criminology at the University of Haifa. In the past she had worked as a social worker with Mentally challenged youth, juvenile offenders and was the head of the Witness Assistance Program at the Tel Aviv Sexual Assault Center.
Carmel lahad is a 4th year student in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem studying Law (LL.B) and Social Work (B.S.W). Worked for two years as a paralegal in the Public Defense office in Jerusalem and took part of the Innocence Clinic of the Hebrew University. As part of her studies in Social Work she did practical training in therapy for prisoners in rehabilitation and in IASA Jerusalem. Currently, Carmel is a research assistant in the program for children and teen rights that is in our center.
Gili Ramon is a second year student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem pursuing a bachelor's degree in law (LL.B), and a graduate of the "Misholim program" (B.A and teaching certificate in civics) at Oranim Academic College. She established and operated the website "Migdalor", promoting political education for liberal democracy by educators and educational organizations. Her areas of interest are the combination of the legal and educational fields. Among them, she studied the limits of freedom of speech for educators, private education versus public education, and more. Gili works at Minerva Center for Human Rights as Project coordinator and media manager in the program for children and youth rights.
Malak Abu Rmaileh coordinates the Arab Society of the Child and Youth Rights Program at Minerva Center for Human Rights, in the Faculty of Law. She is a graduate of Hebrew University in the department of education and multidisciplinary program. Moreover, she is an M.A student in the field of administration and policy in education. Her area of interest is Arab youth at risk, which she wrote her seminary work on. Abu Ramila also volunteered as the marketing and media department coordinator for the Al-Basha'air program for excellent East Jerusalem students at the Hebrew University. In addition, she works as a facilitator at the Lissan Association.